Hammurabi Human Rights Organization complete the eleventh workshop II phase, concerned with the rights of persons with disabilities and special needs being the last training workshops for the current year.
The workshop held on August 18, 2024 at the headquarters of the Human Love of Brotherhood (Caritas) in Baghdad.
This workshop came after Hammurabi Organization achieved series of training workshops to raise awareness of the rights of persons with disabilities, amounting to 20 workshops during the years 2023-2024, benefiting approximately 570 participants, carried out in cooperation and coordination with the Human Love of Brotherhood (Caritas) and under the auspices of the John Paul II Foundation and with the support of the Italian Development Agency. The workshop took place at the headquarters of Caritas in Baghdad.
In the last workshop, the 60 participants, were divided into three groups, each group was assigned a lecturer, so that the work was rotated between the lecturers in these groups and in three halls. Mr. William Warda the General Coordinator of the project delivered a welcoming speech including a summary of the project, its objectives, and the accessible impact.
The lecturers then began to give their own lectures. The researcher Mrs.Pascale Warda discussed with one of the groups the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, its articles and its humanitarian philosophy, as well as other international treaties and instruments on the protection of human dignity, focusing on the rights of persons with disabilities.
Meanwhile, Dr. Yassin Al-Sudani, Director of the Planning Department at the Authority for Persons with Disabilities, discussed with the second group the Law for Persons with Disabilities No. 38 of 2013 and its amendments included in Law No. 11 of 2024. He explained the terms and provisions of the Act and the important and fundamental privileges for persons with disabilities.
With regard to the third group, Dr. Kamal Mohammed Siddiq, Director of the Department of Educational Rehabilitation at the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs, addressed the role of the Ministry and the Authority for Persons with Disabilities , directing participants to ways of accessing rights and the benefits and services provided by ministries to citizens in terms of entitlements and services included in Law No. 11 of 2024. He provided a detailed explanation of the centers and institutions to which disabled people should have recourse to pursue their rights and those of their relatives, while Mr. Omar Al Hafith from the Office of the Minister of Labor and Social Affairs (Department of Organizations) provided the three groups with explanations and answers to inquiries as well as information on as well as information on the state owned centers for rehabilitating people with special needs and the types of services provided.
Each lecturer took turns to present what he gave to the first group, repeating it to the second and third groups, and so on. The lecturers adopted a short lectures curriculum with mutual dialogue providing a space for questions, inquiries and interventions. The smart board and PowerPoint technologies were also used.
The workshop concluded by answering the questions and interventions of the participants from the families of persons with disabilities after the participants raised the problems encountered in caring for their relatives and other challenges during their visits to state institutions and extended their thanks to all those in charge of this workshop, which is rich in information that facilitates access to their rights, guaranteed by law.
For its part, Hammurabi Human Rights Organization recorded all the proposals submitted by the beneficiaries to be presented as recommendations to the relevant authorities.
